Community Engagement

Ned GardinerHealy Hamilton

Ka Chun YuBob Raynolds

Worldviews Network Institute – Thursday, March 17, 2011

Building Your Local Advisory Board

• Federal and Local Government

• NOAA

• US Department of Agriculture

• Informal Science Institutions (ISIs)

• Non-Governmental Organizations

• Researchers

• Finding potential partners

Case Study: DMNS’ Water in the West

• Letter to potential partnershttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1oTeLMew0wDcO6-DkmXe_J3JyqJk5584Uy5PxvoqIklo/edit?

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• Phone calls, emails, ..., repeat

• Persistence, persistence, persistence ... Dialogue with partners

Case Study: DMNS’ Water in the West

Engaging community partners ...

Invitations

Show draft narrative with rough visuals in Uniview

Group Discussion

Repeat

Case Study: DMNS’ Water in the West

After repeated

dialogues with local

advisors ...

Case Study: California Academy of Sciences